Remodel Day 21

I feel rather lame for not having some more pictures to share yet. I've got a lot of pictures sitting on the hard drive at home, but haven't taken the time to go through them and select the real special ones for the online photo album.

What I did spend some time on, instead of uploading pictures, was working on making some QuickTime "Virtual Reality" (QTVR) images. This involves standing in one place in the room and taking a series of pictures in a circle which overlap slightly. Then, you need a program to stitch these into a cylindrical, single image. Once I'm happy with that, another program (there are some programs which do both of these steps) takes the cylindrical image and turns it into a QTVR cubic image which can be viewed on any computer in QuickTime Player, or via the web. This lets you look left, right, up, down and zoom in and out with mouse movements, giving the viewer a relatively good idea of what the space looks like from that one spot where the pictures were taken.

So where are these cool things of which I write? Well, the sentence which started with "Once I'm happy with that, ..." is key in that I wasn't happy with how the images were turning out. That pretty much sums it up. When they make me happy/ier, they will get put on the web.

At this week's end, the remodel construction area is looking much more house-ish. The insulation was installed and passed inspection the same day. But what really makes it look "real" is the drywall. In just two days, a single drywall hanger completed 98% of the upstairs rooms. To me, that's amazingly fast.

That's all there is for an update without pictures.

Next week, we'll have the drywall hanging completed Monday. Tuesday through the end of the week will be mudding, taping, and PVA primer/sealing of the drywall.